Senate Finance Committee Chair John A. DeFrancisco and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman D. Farrell, Jr. today announced Joint Legislative Budget Hearings will conclude on Thursday, March 3. The hearing will focus on Health / Medicaid and is the final hearing in a series of 13 Joint Legislative Budget Hearings that reviewed the Executive’s budget proposal for SFY 2011-2012.

The Health / Medicaid budget hearing will be available for live viewing on the Senate and Assembly websites and the Legislative Channel (available on cable systems throughout the state), but will be preempted when the houses are in session. At the conclusion of the legislative deliberations, live televised coverage of the hearings will resume.

Witnesses scheduled to testify include:

New York State Department of Health
Nirav Shah, M.D., Commissioner

New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General
James Sheehan, Medicaid Inspector General

Greater NY Hospital Association
Kenneth E. Raske, President & CEO

HANYS
Dan Sisto, President

Iroquois Health Alliance
Gary Fitzgerald, President & CEO

Medical Society of the State of New York
Leah S. McCormack, M.D., President
Gerard Conway, Esq.